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Clint Eastwood Edward Weston Jeri Southern

John Hammond Billie Holiday Joe Christmas

Mr. Chips Wild Bill Hickok Amarillo Slim

I've always enjoyed that one when I've played it.

I don't have the Jazztet box, but I had a similar occurrence recently. I played some Benny Golson and remembered what a great player he is and how I've tended to overlook him - and for no good reason.

Joe Venuti tuba (or maybe bass) story: It is approximately 8:00 p.m. on Broadway in the bustling metropolis of New York City. The year is 1926 . . . or is it 1946? No one knows for sure. As theater patrons hustle to their evening’s entertainment, dozens of men dressed in tuxedos, carrying instrument cases larger than themselves, begin to assemble on the corner of 46th Street and Broadway. The musicians with their instruments mix with the bustling theater crowd and evening traffic to make the sidewalk and the street practically impassable. From across the street, inside the old Brill Building, a man watches these disruptive events and enjoys a hearty laugh. The man is Joe Venuti, both one of the world’s greatest musicians and practical jokers. According to legend, Venuti was the person who called the musician’s union to hire 36 bass players for the evening and instructed them to meet on said corner so he could sit back and enjoy the ensuing chaos. Some version of the story have the number at 48 musicians and some others have the instrument as tubas instead of basses. It doesn’t matter. Any version you choose gets the point across that Joe Venuti was not your average violinist. Venuti’s joke turned out to be a rather expensive one as the union forced Venuti to pay each player their evening rate for the phony gig. It didn’t matter to Venuti. He got what he wanted out of it – fun, laughter and pandemonium

Jumpin' Jack Flash Street Fightin' Man The Midnight Rambler

James Brown - "The man who put the wet in sweat" Bobby Byrd The JBs

Bought it when it came out and 46 years later I'm still listening to it.

Bruce Wayne Captain Mar-vell Orin

Masters and Johnson Ray J. Johnson Johnny Johnson

Chuck hipped us to Cyrus St. Clair:

Beverly Sills Thomas Paine Seymour Glass

Al Cohn and Zoot Sims: Either Way (Fred Miles Presents - Japan)

Not jazz & not a album cover, but appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWXbVsMkz1U

Bobby Soxx and the Blue Jeans Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps The Kansas City Blues

I bought the LP when it was released back when. I have few positive memories and am not inclined to revisit it.

Redd Foxx John D. Fox Erwin Rommel

Harry Carney was mentioned in the opening post and I'll mention him again. Baritone didn't get any better.

The Cecil footage should be great also. It was the Unit Structures band (minus Ken McIntyre and Henry Grimes) and I recall the music as being wonderful.

Monk Monk Monk

There was an article in The New York Times today about D.A. Pennebaker and his film archives. When I read it, it jogged my memory of attending concerts by Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler in Buffalo in 1968. The concerts were part of an arts festival and I remember that the concerts, along with a reading by Allen Ginsberg, were filmed. I e-mailed Frazer Pennebaker, D.A. Pennebaker's son, who's in charge of the archives, inquiring whether the Taylor and Ayler footage still existed. I was amazed when I received a reply ten minutes later saying that he knew that Cecil Taylor and Allen Ginsberg footage was in the archives and that he would check if any Albert Ayler footage existed. Let's hope that the Ayler footage is there. It would be a major find, as I believe that there's very little film of Albert Ayler in existence.

May today be the happiest of birthdays for you, Guy! :party:

Lee Friedlander Walker Evans Robert Frank

Washington Jefferson Lincoln